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Melica Brodeur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Department of Oncology at 海角社区. She is an attending Gynecologic Oncologist and a Principal Investigator at the Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research where she practices as a clinician-scientist.聽聽

She completed her medical degree at 海角社区 following which she undertook her Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at the University of British Columbia. She pursued a subspecialty in Gynecologic Oncology at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al during which she supplemented her training through the Clinician-Investigator Program with a master鈥檚 in biomedical sciences working in the laboratory of Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson. Her interests in translational research led her to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under the direction of Drs Britta Weigelt and Dmitriy Zamarin.聽聽

Her research focuses on understanding treatment response in gynecologic cancers and discovering new therapeutic targets and treatment strategies to overcome therapy failure. She co-leads the Gynecologic Oncology Research Laboratory with Dr. Walter Gotlieb at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. She was recently granted the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Early-Career Investigator Award. Her mission is to help improve the lives of patients and families affected by gynecologic cancers.聽